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He is one of the four evil men in Hong Kong movies, and he is also the thirteenth Taibao of Tsz Wan Shan, who was famous in the early years. From the underworld to the actor, from birth to death, his life story is simply a microcosm of the history of Hong Kong gangsters.
Today, I will combine his two autobiographical films and some text interviews with his boss to restore the underworld career of Hong Kong actor Lee Shau Kee.
Lee Shau Kee was born in 1949 in Tsz Wan Shan, Hong Kong. Like many low-income Hong Kong families in those days, their parents struggled to make ends meet all day. Unsupervised Lee Shau Kee soon developed a lawless character. He couldn't read well, and he felt that the underworld was very powerful, so he formed a small group with twelve other friends and fought and fought all day.
Because he was tall and mighty, and his hands were black, he had the nickname of "Goofy". People who have mixed up a certain position are not afraid of opponents of the same level as him, but they are afraid of these unscrupulous hairy boys.
Relying on the lifeless fighting style, the Thirteen Taibao of Ciyun Mountain soon became famous. It became the most feared child party organization in Hong Kong, and successfully attracted the attention of 14k, throwing an olive branch to it.
That time was the day Lee Shau Kee most longed for when he was a child, and it was also the most regrettable and absurd day when he was old.
"When you didn't have money before, when you went to the street to see who was not pleasing to the eye, you robbed him, and you had money" - Lee Shau Kee
They wandered the streets all day long, making a fortune on the ciyun mountain boundary, seeing who was upset with a meal, but when they spent money, they found a shop to collect protection fees. Even in jail, he can have a party.
"I tell you, when I was young, I was very happy in prison, and some people in prison played bands, and he took a broom and pretended to play the piano, and some of them took the lid of the bucket to knock. We also had a party in the evening, which was fun. ”
"Does the jailer leave it alone?"
"You're playing and you're not fighting"
It's just that all the gifts of fate have been marked in secret. Lee Shau Kee's first ten years were beautiful, and the last ten years were miserable.
02.
If anyone still thinks that it is a scenery of gu confused boys, then look at the story of Lee Shau Kee. There is a place in Hong Kong called kowloon walled city, and when the Qing court ceded Hong Kong, it demanded that this place be retained as Chinese territory, and over time, it became the famous three-way zone.
Yellow gambling poison is the characteristic here, fist is the hardest truth here, Lee Shau Kee and his community were once the ground snakes here. Until a fight, his brother was hacked to death by a knife, and his parents pointed at his nose and told him to hurry up.
He suddenly realized that he was living a life with his head pinned to the waistband of his pants, and there was no tomorrow today. Once the knife is swung out, it will never be returned.
The new hatred and the old hatred are always entangled, even if you want to wash your hands in the golden basin, you have to see if the enemy agrees or not. You can only keep fighting. Later generations often say: People can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, more or less.
In order to numb himself, he began to take drugs. Suck black and white upside down, suck it skinny. Suck up the horse boy and run out, and the territory is lost. Thirty years later, he revisited the place with a reporter from People Magazine, pointing to a place where he said, "That was his fan stall."
Every day the dead people get up in the morning and carry the bodies to the street to throw them away, and then sit in the dead people's seats and suck them. People are not people, ghosts are not ghosts, and he can't understand why he abused himself so badly in the first place.
Lee Shau Kee, whose body was hollowed out by drugs, was reduced from a gangster to a bereaved dog that everyone shouted and beat. His father broke off relations with him, and his sisters and sisters called the police when they saw him. His mother felt sorry for him and cried and begged him to quit poisoning, and he cried and agreed. As soon as the addiction comes up, you can't control yourself.
Finally, one day, he stood on the roof and prepared to die.
It's really boring to be human. But he was afraid of death and changed his mind temporarily. The following year he stole something and was caught by the police and put in jail. This time in jail, there was no longer a youthful arrogance. During the New Year, he sat at the window with his fellow inmates, watching the lights in the prison guards' homes, listening to the laughter of the children, and feeling a wave of envy. The life of an ordinary person has become his unattainable dream.
After his release from prison, his mother found him with a priest. This pastor was his former eldest brother, Chen Shenzhi, who had long since converted from evil. Fortunately, there are still two people in the world who have not given up on him, helped him quit drugs, and Lee Shau Kee, who has completely got rid of drug addiction, seems to have regained his life.
Under the introduction of Chen Shenzhi, he met Wang Jing and other filmmakers and became the script consultant of "Ancient Puzzle Boy". Starred as a gangster in various gangster movies. Of course, there are also famous scenes of cooperation with Star Master:
"I have never tried such a clear feeling, the umami taste of beef, the sweetness of peeing shrimp, combined to be more than a tiger spotted, even more poetic than my first love." 」
To tell the truth, I didn't understand how Star Ye persuaded this jianghu guy to let go of himself. Since then, Lee Shau Kee has become history.
03.
On June 2, 2019, Hong Kong actor Lee Shau Kee passed away.
"You die in the hospital without surgery, you die in the hospital when you do surgery, you always die here, just do it."
He was skinny from his hospital bed, and in his last days on earth, he saw too much humanity.
After quitting the underworld and becoming an actor, he starred in more than forty film and television dramas, and also set up his own film company, working hard for decades and having small savings.
But unfortunately, later, Hong Kong movies became thinner and thinner, and his company went out of business. Invested properties are also in the financial tsunami
Go up in smoke. Not only did he lose his savings, he owed a lot of money. After his friends heard that he was in debt, they chose to leave.
Only a few people, and their former gang brothers, were willing to stay by his side to help him, including Gu Tianle.
Before dying, he specifically told his girlfriend: all ceremonies should be from Jane, don't bother Gu Tianle anymore.
Later, he got liver cancer again, and after chemotherapy, the whole person suddenly lost weight. Living in the tenement building in Kowloon Tong, the monthly rent is 10,000, all relying on the community brothers to pay rent, and when he goes out to eat, he is also paid by neighbors.
In 2018, a reporter asked him: Many people outside say that they are helping you, is it true?
He said angrily: "Many people have said that they helped me, but this is not true, I am now a wasted person." If you don't help me, please don't take my things and dress up as a good person again. ”
The once beautiful big brother of the jianghu has fallen here, which inevitably causes people to sigh. But he himself seems to have anticipated the ending, and in an interview a few years ago, he said:
"There is a saying that we have to confess when we are old, and we must stand firm when we are beaten."